Description

Auto Post Thumbnail PRO is a plugin to generate Featured Image (AKA Post Thumbnail) from first image in a post or any custom post type content. The plugin will also create thumbnails from several popular Video services if it finds a Video embedded in the post.

Post Thumbnails is a theme feature introduced with Version 2.9 of WordPress. It was quickly changed to Featured Images with Version 3.0. Post Thumbnail, now Featured Image, is an image that is chosen as the representative image for Posts. The display of this image is up to the theme. Most Modern themes now use featured images in a variety of ways.

This plugin DOES NOT extract thumbnails/featured image from custom field or anywhere else.

Testimonials

“Simply AMAZING WordPress tool!. Saved me time!. Thanks, I just tried it and all the options work perfectly. Super! Recommended. Five stars. Thanks for this useful work.”jtorres_mora

“Very well done. easy, cheap and damn useful! A must have.”area97

“This plugin is awesome and saved me a huge amount of time. I used it on an old site that was built in the days of WordPress 1.x, needless to say it had no post thumbnails. This plugin generated thumbnails almost perfectly for thousands of posts. Reasons for the few times it failed were easily identified and fixed. I’ll post a comment with the reasons. Overall this plugin represents an EXCELLENT value and was a brilliant idea. Thanks!”invictus

Features

Extracts the first Image or Video in post content and creates the featured image

If no image found in post content, use the first attached image as featured image

Existing Featured Images will not be changed

Ability to provide default featured image to use if post content doesn’t have any image

Generate thumbnails for Custom Post Types (Selectable)

Generate thumbnails from external images

Generate thumbnails from imported RSS feeds

Generate featured images for old/legacy posts via a single click

Setting to skip auto thumbnail generation right on the Post edit page

Setting for smallest image to be considered as featured image

Images inserted via most shortcodes also supported. eg:

Auto thumbnail generation for popular video sharing services – YouTube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, Justin.tv, DailyMotion and MetaCafe. Note: this plug will not work if the video code is an iframe

Unlink Featured Images created by the plugin or all Featured Images

Fully translatable, default.po has been provided

Well supported with free updates

Installation

Once you have downloaded the zip file from Code Canyon extract the contents to a folder of your choice. Chances are if you are reading this you have already done that. Find the file called auto-post-thumbnail-pro.zip. This is the plugin file. You can upload this file from your WordPress Admin

Go to Plugins > Add New

Select Upload

Upload the auto-featured-image.zip file

Activate the plugin

Go to Settings > Auto Post Thumbnail PRO

Set the options as per your liking

Alternatively you can manually install the plugin by following the instructions given here.

Usage

The Auto in the plugin name is not just for effect, it indeed just works. There are however a few plugin options that you can set:

Set URL of default featured image to use if post’s content doesn’t have any image, this is optional

Set a dimension of smallest image (in post content) to be considered as featured image. This is 17px by default so that smileys etc. will be excluded

Click on ‘Generate Thumbnails’ button to generate featured images for your published posts which don’t have any featured image already set

While adding or editing a post you can set or unset a the setting to skip automatic thumbnail generation